Crackerjack Texture

The Texture Tuesday challenge this week is to use Kim Klassen's new texture "Crackerjack" with any photo.  I took this photo while on vacation in France a few years ago.  It's one of my favorites.

(Mouse over to see the original photo.)

Doin' the Mashed Potato

I know it sounds crazy - but I used mashed potatoes as a paint resist on fabric.

finished result

Muslin pinned tightly to padded board.  I bought the cheapest grocery store brand of dry instant mashed potatoes.  Mixed 3/4 to 1 cup of the dry potato flakes with about 2 cups of hot water.  (The mixture should be the consistency of  pudding.)  

Potato mixture spread over top.  The hard part is waiting for this to dry!  I waited overnight.  When the mixture is dry, it cracks - this is a good thing.

Fabric paints brushed over dry potato mixture.  Let paint dry then rinse fabric with warm water to remove potato mixture.

This was my first attempt using mashed potato resist.  I need to think about whether the results were worth the effort.  What do you think?

Go to Pink Saturday for more inspiration.

And the winner is...

Thank you to everyone who entered the drawing for this felted piece.

The lucky winner is

 Lorraine at Paper Vernissage

Lorraine send me an email at patkumicich@me.com with your snail mail address so I can get this out to you right away!

CONGRATULATIONS!

Orange you glad...

This week's Texture Tuesday challenge is an interpretation of the color orange.  I scoured the house to find something orange.  Finally, I remembered my bird teapot.

What I did:

Birthday Greetings...

My dear daughter will be celebrating her birthday soon.  I made a special card for her - something fun and pretty - just like her!  This card is more like a little book.

 dry brush acrylic paints on card stock, fold paper as shown (flip paper over before second fold), cut down center of horizontal ditch fold

Fold paper on fold lines and decorate

Since "Jennifer" has 8 letters, I stamped each letter of her name on a page then wrote a descriptive word about her starting with that letter 

Punch two 1/8" holes (one on front and one on back page thread ribbon through and knot) tie in a bow.  One of the nice things about making a card this size, it will fit into store-bought 4-1/8 x 5-1/4 invitation envelopes.

Visit Pink Saturday for more inspiration!

 

Back to School...

This week's Texture Tuesday challenge theme is "Back to School".  Participants are to use a photo plus two of Kim's textures.

I have a twin brother, Barney.  We were in the same first grade class - 1953 can you believe it?!  No one is smiling - I wonder why?

I used Kim's textures KK2 and She Loves You.

BTW, I'm hosting a give-away.  If you'd like a chance to enter, click HERE.